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Standard Oil of California negotiated a contract with the King of Saudi Arabia that granted the company the exclusive concession t...

Early America and Opportunity

middle-class incomes once the frugality and struggles of their youth were over" (108). In essence, once the wilderness struggles w...

Homegrown Terrorism: Violence in the Pro-Life Movement

methods used by Islamic fundamentalists. That is, each faction uses bombs. Sometimes, assassination is used as well. There have be...

How to Use History According to David E. Sutton and Alexander and Sonia Alland

This is a research paper consisting of five pages that compares how history can serve as both guide in inspiration as illustrated ...

Educating Readers in Books Nine, Ten and Thirteen of 'The Prelude' by William Wordsworth

In five pages this paper discusses how Wordsworth teaches his readers to heed history's lessons in these books of 'The Prelude.' ...

Continuing Power Crisis in California

amount of finger pointing going on in California as to who is responsible for this most recent energy shortage. Nonetheless, few ...

Kwakiutl Indians' Man Eating Bird 'Hokhokw' Mask

wings of the bird and during the ceremony, the dancers snap the beak closed with a loud clap (Kwakiutl Ceremonial Dance Mask, 2002...

History of Blackface Minstrelsy

Black minstrelsy and its role throughouth the history of Black American culture is discussed within the context of Eileen Southern...

The Bible - Fact or Fiction?

This 8 page paper considers whether the Bible is fact or myth, and whether or not it provides an accurate account of real people a...

'Reason as the law of the World' According to Hegel

In five pages this paper examines Hegel's philosophy within the context of the statement 'The sole thought which philosophy brings...

More Than One History in the American Revolution

Histories in recent years have sought to go beyond the classical interpretations that have been presented in the past. This essay ...

French Canadians at the End of the 19th Century

"the aspirations of the people themselves. The controlling idea of the French Canadian is to retain...

Truth and History

workers who smoked at their jobs, and no fire extinguishers (Triangle fire, 2006). At approximately 4.45 p.m. on March 25, 1911, ...

New England in the Seventeenth Century and Environmental History

native population because "by the marvelous goodness & providence of God not one of the English was so much as sick."3 This sent...

An Overview Perspective of Quebec

leading traders of the north even before European contact (Canada and the World Backgrounder, 1995). Utilizing their strategic lo...

Unique U.S. Southern State of Louisiana

has been proactive in respect to opposing racism at every turn. Going back to an earlier time, in the all white groups which did...

Websites on Black History and Information Verification

Europe" (also by Rashidi) also identifies Moors as synonymous with black Africans and describes how Moorish soldiers cross over fr...

West Misperceptions of the History of East Asia

of French historian Michel Foucalt, and makes three principal arguments. The first argument that Said presents is that Orientali...

Beauty, Consumption and Habits of Thought

If we look at the way that conspicuous consumption today and in the past there is still an element of class differentiation in the...

Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie's HIstory Writing

providing a complete description of the village, its geography, demography, religious beliefs, social beliefs, families, sex, food...

Rise and Fall of of the Qin Dynasty

considered to be "xian" or districts, but larger administrative districts were later formed. These were the "jun" or provinces (Qi...

A Review of The Shoemaker and the Tea Party by Alfred Young

In this five page paper the fact that our perception of history changes over time is illustrated with a look back some fifty years...

Historical Achievements of Man and Edward Gibbon

Strategic bombing was an aspect of World War II, and people didnt think much about that aspect" (Feld 961b-feld.html). There is n...

Looking Back at the Culture of the 20th Century from the 22nd Century

This 8 page paper gives a cultural history of the 20th century from the perspective of someone living in the 22nd century. The wri...

United Kingdom and Problem with Racism

This research paper considers the issue of racism within the cultural context of the United Kingdom and that nation's history. Thi...

Medieval History Bias

In a paper consisting of 8 page the influence of bias in Medieval history telling is considered along with the ways in which histo...

Historical Analysis of Edward Gibbons' 'The Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire,' Thucydides' 'History of the Peloponnesian War,' and Tacitus' 'The Annals'

In ten pages three ancient historical texts are analyzed in terms of author's approach to history, the representation of the past,...

American Holocaust by David Stannard

In six pages Stannard's contention that the Europeans were responsible for world history's greatest acts of genocide in the exterm...

Asia and Western Expansionism

The ways in which modernization in Asia was influenced by Western expansion are examined in five pages with references made to She...

Examining the U.S. Constitution

Few documents since the Magna Carta have had such a profound influence on social and political history as the Constitution of the ...